Inside the Second Research Institute, we gathered around Aldebaran's big screen to watch the battle.
But for some reason, the Proxy, who was supposed to be in charge of command, was sitting with us too. She even held Xiao Qilan's head in her hands, fiddling and playing with it, showing a distinct lack of tension.
So far, the decisive battle SpiCa had launched had never truly put any pressure on her.
She must still have some trump card hidden away, right?
"She's out!"
Sun Ji was the first to burst out of the wormhole.
Wreathed in true dragon flames, the Blackthorn Spear in hand and a long trail of cherry-pink hair streaming behind her, she descended from the sky with unstoppable momentum and plunged straight into the Deep Well below.
The ground cameras couldn't capture her, so the feed switched to the invisible drones hidden inside the well, which intermittently transmitted choppy footage.
The video ran at roughly ten frames per second, and the image quality was pretty awful too.
The Proxy couldn't help complaining:
"Aldebaran, aren't these drones of yours a little too lousy?"
With her eternally unfinished lollipop in her mouth, Aldebaran retorted:
"These drones' primary job is to receive magical girls' emotions, followed by scanning the terrain without being detected. Filming and surveillance weren't even part of their design. You should be thanking your lucky stars we can see anything at all! Do you have any idea what junk materials they're made from?!"
I knew Aldebaran was short on resources, but I really didn't know what these drones were made of.
"Still, does it have to look like a PowerPoint slideshow?"
The footage really was terrible. I couldn't even make out where Sun Ji was. With all those chaotic magical effects erupting at once, the result was